news – Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) Lab

The 53rd annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science

The Department of Information Science hosted the 53rd annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS/ACSI) May 27-29th at the Faculty of…

Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community (BRIC) conference

The Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community (BRIC) conference was held at the University of Montreal, MIL Campus, June 4-5, 2025.

Transforming Climate Action research program

Dalhousie University’s Ocean Frontier Institute launched the Transforming Climate Action (TCA) research program in 2023. Philippe Mongeon, one of the leads of Cluster 3.2…

The QSSLab attends STI 2024

The QSSLab presented several projects at the 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, September 18-20, in Berlin, Germany.

Coalition Publica Scholarships Awarded to Geoff Krause and Rebecca Marjoram

Congratulations to Geoff Krause (IDPhD) and Rebecca Marjoram (MI), 2024 Coalition Publica scholarship recipients!

OFI Seed Funding Awarded to Rémi Toupin and Philippe Mongeon

Rémi Toupin and Philippe Mongeon are one of 30 new projects to receive funding awards from the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) Seed Fund. Their project, entitled, ’Aligning…

QSSLab attends STI 2023

The 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, 2023, was held September 27-29, 2023 in Leiden, The Netherlands. The 2023 edition focused…

Visiting researcher: Jérémie Dion

Jérémie is a PhD student in Science, Technology and Society at Université du Québec à Montréal, and a member of the Canada Research Chair in Applied Epistemology. He…

Visiting Researcher: Adrián A. Díaz-Faes

Adrián Díaz-Faes is a visiting researcher with the QSSLab during August and September. Adrián is a social scientist interested in understanding collaboration and knowledge…

Philippe Mongeon New Editor of CJILS

Congratulations to the director of the QSSLab, Philippe Mongeon, for his new position as Editor of the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Science (CJILS/RCSIB)!

Partnership Engagement Grant Awarded to Philippe Mongeon and Rémi Toupin

How is grey literature about marine protection cited in policy documents and scholarly literature? Philippe Mongeon and Rémi Toupin have been awarded a Partnership…

QSSLab at CAIS 2023

By Madelaine Hare

Profile on Rémi Toupin

QSS Lab is looking forward to welcoming Rémi Toupin back to Halifax this spring. Remi is starting two years at Dalhousie as a FRQSC postdoctoral fellow. Here we profile…

New QSS Lab Members

In September 2022, QSS Lab welcomed 10 new members! Please find the profiles of Toni Beaton, Naomi Richards, Mercy Chikezie, Keith MacKnight, Julia Crowell, Joana Hiemstra…

Profile on Poppy Riddle

Poppy Riddle is a doctoral student in the Dalhousie Interdisciplinary PhD (IDPhD) program where she combines her interests in library and information science (LIS) and…

SIG-MET Awards: Geoff Krause and Poppy Riddle winners of the Metrics 2022 Best Student Paper Award

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In October 2022, several members of the QSS Lab presented at Metrics 2022: ASIS&T Virtual Workshop on Informetrics and Scientometrics Research sponsored by Elsevier’s…

Mitacs Globalink Interns

The QSSLab is looking forward to hosting two research interns this summer through the Mitacs Globalink Research program! Valeriia Moroz and JoonSeok Oh will be working with…

Conference Recap: International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, September 7-9, 2022

In early September, 2022, members of the QSS Lab travelled to Granada, Spain for the 26th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators hosted at…

Canadian Publications in LIS Database

Research activities are a large part of the work of university librarians. However, their work often suffers from a lack of visibility, resulting in untapped potential for…

Two international scholars visiting the lab this July

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The QSS lab is happy to announce that Dr. Rodigro Costas (CWTS Leiden) and Dr. Timothy D. Bowman (Wayne State University), two prominent scholars in the quantitative science…

New SSHRC connection grant

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Philippe Mongeon was awarded a connection grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The project is a partnership with Dr. Jean-Sébastien Sauvé…

New grant: What constitutes effective knowledge exchange at the environmental science-policy interface?

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Dr. Philippe Mongeon, Director of the QSS lab, Dr. Alana Westwood (Lead PI) and Dr. Matthew Falconer received a SSHRC partnership development grant to investigate knowledge…